The sights and sounds of a guitar show are invigorating for guitarists of all experience levels, and are nearly enough to drive any axe-slinger into a shopping frenzy. But there’s another underrated sense that I’ve always associated with a convention hall packed with musicians and vendors: smell. The tang of…
The recently reopened Trees club in Deep Ellum may seem an odd place to hold a stand-up comedy show. After all, this is the historic venue that has traditionally been home to rock shows, including the infamous 1991 Nirvana melee wherein Kurt Cobain and bouncer Turner Van Blarcum traded blows…
Each week City of Ate will give you the lowdown on a local happy hour in Quittin’ Time, with the details on why you should or shouldn’t take up the featured bar or restaurant on its drink specials.Where: Barcadia, 1917 N. Henderson Ave., 214-821-7300When: 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesdays…
A selection of more than 600 beers surrounded me on refrigerated grocery shelves that seemed to stretch on forever, and a money clip brimming with cash in my jacket pocket bounced against my ribs like a reassuring pat with each step. Yet I had to hold back from the splurge…
Though I live in Oak Cliff, I’m sick of media reports about how the community is the coolest part of Dallas–“the next Austin,” as if that’s a desirable aspiration. Surely those who don’t live there are even more fatigued. Therefore, as someone tangentially involved with the artists, musicians and other…
Each week City of Ate will give you the lowdown on a local happy hour in Quittin’ Time, with the details and why you should or shouldn’t take up the featured bar or restaurant on its drink specials.Where: Lee Harvey’s, 1807 Gould St.When: 3 p.m. to closing time Mondays and…
The opening of Eno’s Pub last Thursday was marked by too much rock for the karaoke system to handle and too few beer samples for the thirsty donors. But those small setbacks aside, it was a great night, as you may have seen in Spike Johnson’s slideshow.The night had been…
Finesse Mitchell may be the most forgettable black Saturday Night Live cast member ever. Remember Starkeisha, the stereotypical mean ghetto gal? Didn’t think so. How boring do you have to be that you’re overshadowed by the Good Burger dude? Of course, during Mitchell’s 2003 to 2006 stint, the memory of…
Those of us who predicted that burlesque would go the way of the swing-dance craze are officially wrong. The tassels-and-ta-tas trend is here to stay, as The Ruby Revue is now a monthly showcase. April’s edition features Miss Eva Strangelove, a slinky, tattooed brunette whose glowing smile makes her striptease…
Former Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant now has a new band featuring a well-respected female Americana singer, but her name isn’t Alison Krauss.Rather, Patty Griffin has been in the studio with Plant–along with Darrell Scott, Byron House, Marco Giovino and Buddy Miller–as The Band of Joy, which will release the…
Each week City of Ate will give you the lowdown on a local happy hour in Quittin’ Time, with the details and why you should or shouldn’t take up the featured bar or restaurant on its drink specials.Where: Stoneleigh P, 2926 Maple Ave.When: 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays through…
It looks like hosting shows and giving away mp3s is no longer enough for two highly influential Dallas-based music blogs, as Gorilla Vs. Bear and Weekly Tape Deck have joined forces to create Forest Family Records. But while both blogs are Dallas-based, and will have Dallas’s A&R Record Manufacturing press…
Yesterday, Bucks Burnett was this close to signing a lease for a space in Deep Ellum to house his eight-track museum. But, despite an NX35 tweet Friday announcing that he was in the final stages of securing a venue, Burnett had a last-minute change of heart about the location and…
Fort Worth brewery Rahr & Sons’ roof collapsed during the February 12 snowmageddon storm, bringing beer production to a screeching halt as the bottling line and glycol chilling lines cooling the fermentation tanks were crushed and demolished.More than a month later, founder Fritz Rahr said in an interview earlier this…
Hipster Runoff has a pretty funny take on this Nylon video interview with Alan Palomo of Neon Indian, in which the interviewer seems to be taking the “Band Crush” series title a bit literally. As Carles says, interviewer Becka Diamond asks “a bunch of relevant questions from 1 year ago,”…
As Pete let you know back in September, Dallas indie skate-hop MC Dustin Cavazos made his very promising The Shelly EP a free download. So maybe you can return the favor by checking him out live at Mokah Coffee Bar in Deep Ellum tonight, whaddya say? The Scuba Team Go…
Pot humor can hardly be called a universally enjoyed subject of comedy, as there will always be abstainers who don’t get the joke. But comedians who make the occasional 420 reference will always have a built-in audience of stoners–and that sucks. Because, as much as it pains me to admit…
While Edinburgh comic Danny Bhoy has a unique worldview thanks to his half-Indian and half-Scottish heritage, his comedy has more in common with the harmless, lighthearted observational comedy of fellow Scotsman Craig Ferguson than anything politically or racially provocative. For instance, at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal, he…
The line that connects dots as seemingly disparate as Nico, The Eagles and Spiccoli makes its way to Grand Prairie this summer as singer-songwriter and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Jackson Browne makes a North Texas stop on his world tour with collaborator David Lindley. Browne and Lindley perform…
Each week City of Ate will give you the lowdown on a local happy hour in Quittin’ Time, with the details and why you should or shouldn’t take up the featured bar or restaurant on its drink specials.Where: The Meridian Room, 3611 Parry Ave.When: All day Monday, 4 p.m. to…
Jonathan Tyler has been doing more than just putting on swaggering, Pete Freedman-approved Southern rock sets while in Austin for SXSW. Apparently, he’s been making moves, too, as Tyler just tweeted some exciting news for lovers of Texas classic rock past and present. ” News… We will be touring with…
Saturday night’s book-release party for Josh Alan Friedman’s Black Cracker is an opportunity to catch Josh Alan’s atomic-acoustic blues stylings, another chance to catch the gothic-caberet singer-songwriter Mark Growden and a performance by reformed skinhead slam poet Jason Carney at The Kessler Theater. Plus, the whole shebang is free. And…
